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A small square in front of the Church of San Romano martire, in the village of San Romano in Garfagana which is an Italian town of 1 406 inhabitants in the province of Lucca in Tuscany, part of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park. In the area there are Ligurian and Roman settlements. In the Middle Ages it was ruled by the Gherardinghi who owned the castle of Verrucole and to the south by the Counts of Bacciano, owners of a castle now destroyed. The territory was ruled by the Este family from the sixteenth century until the unification of Italy.
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The Tuscany, one of the most beautiful Italian regions, is known throughout the world for its Landscapes and for the Works of Art that it houses (It is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance). Six localities have been designated World Heritage Sites: the Historical Center of Florence, Siena, San Gimignano and Pienza, the Square of the Cathedral of Pisa with the Leaning Tower and the Val d'Orcia. It is in the central Italy and borders with Emilia Romagna (north), Marche and Umbria (east) and Lazio (South). The West coast is bathed from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Sea; here we can find the islands of the Tuscan archipelago including the island of Elba. The regional capital is Florence and the other provinces are: Arezzo, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato and Siena.
